CRITIC’S PICK: Amy Sherald: American Sublime

Fri., May 15 – Sun., Sep. 27
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
High Museum

A career-wide retrospective of the work of Georgia-born Amy Sherald, recipient of the High’s 2018 David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art, is rolling out at the museum and running through late September. She is known for her controversial image of Michelle Obama, painted with the latter’s approval, and for her vivid portrayals on the covers of ‘The New Yorker’ and ‘Vanity Fair.’ In 2020, Sherald’s piece, ‘The Bathers,’ sold for $4,265,000 at auction, vastly exceeding its pre-sale estimate. The ‘American Sublime’ show was due to stop at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery as part of the current tour, but Sherald withdrew from the venue after its reps — in order to appease Donald Trump — proposed excluding her depiction of a non-binary transgender person posing as the Statue of Liberty. — Kevin C. Madigan
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